[Gllug] Idea for meeting

[Richard Cottrill]

There's rsync which I know a lot of people swear by (more often than at)...

Never used it myself though (no need).

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Steve Cobrin
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 3:21 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Idea for meeting
>
>
> On Wednesday 07 Nov 2001 14:32, you wrote:
> > A thought I had (well, actually, someone suggested it to me,
> and I've seen
> > it at another LUG):
> >
> > One of the joys of Linux is that there are so many little tools
> out there
> > which are incredibly useful, but which you'd never find if
> no-one told you
> > about them.  I think it would be nice to have a small spot
> (5-10 minutes)
> > set aside between a couple of the talks for someone to introduce their
> > favourite 'small useful tool'.  It might also be a nice chance
> for someone
> > who doesn't want to give a full-length talk, for whatever
> reason, to talk
> > in a less formal way...
> >
> > Anyway, what do y'all think?
>
> ok, one of the things I was going to mention in my talk is "mirror" which
> takes a snapshot of an ftp site. I've been using it for over 10
> years, and
> find it very useful. Also I could remention "sudo", which I'm a
> great fan of.
>
> If anybody want to recommend any other mirroring software, I'll
> try and take
> a look at it, and offer some biased opinions :-)
> [examples I can think of are: wget, emirror, fmirror]
>
> > It might be too late now to do this for this week's meeting,
> but it might
> > be possible.  If anyone fancies volunteering for this week, get in touch
> > with me, and I'll make sure someone is there with your tool in
> their laptop
> > (Oo-er!) so you can demo it if you want, without having to take your own
> > laptop along.  You wouldn't have to demo it, but it might be nice...
>
> the real issue is whether we can have internet access at the meeting :-/
>
> >
> > Cheers
> > Richard
>
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